Body Heat: Extended Edition

I'm a bit late to this one (ten years, to be exact, but also a newbie to the forum), so I was very excited to find this edit with 8 minutes of excised footage incorporated back into this, one of my top-ten movies of all time. The footage is nicely edited in, and the quality, unlike some extra scenes we have all seen before, is actually equal to the main feature. Also, the content plays nicely into the narrative, although some, including the director, felt that the "first attempt" scene was unneeded. I disagree. Anything added into this, probably the best noir ever, is very welcome in my option, and I'm so glad to find a "new" version of such a long-time fave!

This edit of Body Heat is just awesome! I actually watched it twice so far! I highly recommend it to anyone!

A stone-cold (or in this case sweltering-hot) modern film-noir classic made perfect by the restoration of deleted scenes and fixing of continuity issues. I had recently watched “Body Heat” so I was pretty keen to see Wraith’s extended edition. There’s one very slight editing glitch towards the end when Oscar goes to the hotel as he draws a bead on Ned as the killer. I had to back it up and watch again to be sure I had seen what I thought I saw. But other than that this deft fanedit is top-notch, as befits a story of deceit and murder as primo as neo-noir gets. Which is in part due to the brilliant score by John Barry that completely nails the mood and tone of the tale. Nice job providing cues from the score for the restored footage. Kathleen Turner as Mattie Walker [yowza!] is quite possibly the epitome of cunning seductive manipulative siren, delivering a gold-standard gold-digger performance. Poor Ned! The sap didn’t stand a chance. Well done, Wraith, for producing the definitive version of “Body Heat”. [applause]